As time passed, Pauline and Cholly's relationship deteriorated. He was regularly drunk, caused her to be fired from her job, and is increasingly abusive. They fight often, and the fight violently. Pauline is justifiably angry that she is the only...

Pauline Breedlove is the mother of Pecola. She is the product of a poverty-stricken environment where she learned that her existence was defined by her difference from her ten siblings. When she was two years old she stepped on a...